Soaring Metal Prices May Delay Energy Transition
Clean energy needs may cause years of high prices for copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium under a net-zero emissions scenario.
Not Yet on Track: Climate Threat Demands More Ambitious Global Action
New IMF analysis shows gaps in ambition and policy needed to achieve emissions curbs that contain global warming.
How Investment Funds Can Drive the Green Transition
Sustainable investment funds need to be scaled up to support a successful transition to a green economy.
The Climate Issue
By Gita Bhatt
In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, a character is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he answers. “Gradually, then suddenly.” […]
Managing the Political Economy of Climate Change Policies
By Davide Furceri, Michael Ganslmeier, and Jonathan D. Ostry
Few issues have sparked more attention than how to avoid environmental and human catastrophe from climate change. […]
Reaching Net Zero Emissions
By Florence Jaumotte and Gregor Schwerhoff
عربي, 中文, Español, Français, 日本語, Português, Русский
Climate action is gaining momentum. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries have intensified climate action and many have committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050, meaning that any additional carbon emissions will be offset completely by carbon emissions withdrawn from the atmosphere. […]
What COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Mitigating Climate Change
By Oya Celasun, Florence Jaumotte, and Antonio Spilimbergo
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, climate change—a crisis that can cause even greater destruction—looms. […]
How Strengthening Standards for Data and Disclosure Can Make for a Greener Future
By Caio Ferreira, Fabio Natalucci, Ranjit Singh, and Felix Suntheim
Imagine you plan to invest your savings and are looking for a firm or sector with a sustainable business model or a project that can make a real difference in the transition to a low-carbon economy. […]
Asia-Pacific, the Gigantic Domino of Climate Change
By Vitor Gaspar and Chang Yong Rhee
Forget the poetic flap of a butterfly’s wings in Beijing causing rain in Central Park. Climate issues in Asia-Pacific are measured in superlatives. The world’s biggest population. Two of the three largest carbon dioxide-emitting countries and the largest share of emissions globally. […]
CHART OF THE WEEKBlowing Hot and Cold
By Jiaxiong Yao
When it’s cold we reach for the heater, and when it’s hot we turn on the air conditioning. A warming globe could reduce the need for heating in cold seasons and increase the demand for cooling when it’s hot. […]